Election Audits and Data Privacy

What’s happening? Discussions about 2020 election audits in Pennsylvania are adding data privacy elements to prevent voter information discovered during the audit from being sold to third parties.

Why is this important? The audit standards in PA have included requests for the last 4 numbers of social securities numbers and full drivers license numbers.

How will this be important? An audit conducted by a third party would leave social security numbers and drivers license numbers accessible by a third party and transferrable.

Philadelphia Inquierer via Governing | Concerns Raised About Data Privacy Amid Pa. Election Review